Choose your 45k GM Sport Sedan

Over the last couple days MT has tested 2 GM sport sedans that run roughly 45k (give or take a grand). Those were a loaded Regal GS AWD and loaded RWD Performance ATS 2.0T. There is of course another loaded sport sedan in the RWD V8 Chevy SS. As a wild card you can substitue any of these with a base model, no option 2.0T RWD CTS.

Here are the rules. This will be your only daily driver. They come exactly as optioned (sans colors of course) and the only change/substitution can be the tire choice if one is available.

I will start. Because of it being a daily driver and needing the AWD for the winter months, i would choose the Regal GS with the standard all season tires.

I would take the CTS - because just look at it. And then I would die in a ditch because RWD and this is the great white North and that comes with summer tires I'm sure.
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The AWD makes the Regal very tempting, but I'd go with the ATS and work from home a few days out of the year. The SS would be the hands down winner if my commute weren't so long, the gas would kill me.
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ATS 2.0T 6MT, no question about it. The Regal looks decent, but is overweight and overpriced. I'll give up some fluffy options for the superior chassis in this case.
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I just love the look of this new CTS. And I'm sure I would get around just fine with the 2.0 Turbo. Obviously if I wasn't restricted for price I would get the V-Sport with AWD and some all-season rubber. I put it right up there with Jag in terms of good looks. But I think I like the Caddy better.
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SuperClassy:I just love the look of this new CTS. And I'm sure I would get around just fine with the 2.0 Turbo. Obviously if I wasn't restricted for price I would get the V-Sport with AWD and some all-season rubber. I put it right up there with Jag in terms of good looks. But I think I like the Caddy better.

It is a great design and easily one of the best looking sedans on the road. It is also nice that at least around here, all the GM dealerships have all 3 makes on 1 lot with 4 sedans in the same price range with sporting intentions and totally different personalities.

I haven't felt as excited to look at a car as when I was a kid and the Camaro 30th Anniversary Edition came out. I think I would still love to get behind the wheel of one of those and hear that blueprinted LT4 wail.
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SuperClassy:I just love the look of this new CTS. And I'm sure I would get around just fine with the 2.0 Turbo. Obviously if I wasn't restricted for price I would get the V-Sport with AWD and some all-season rubber. I put it right up there with Jag in terms of good looks. But I think I like the Caddy better.

Stew:It is a great design and easily one of the best looking sedans on the road. It is also nice that at least around here, all the GM dealerships have all 3 makes on 1 lot with 4 sedans in the same price range with sporting intentions and totally different personalities.

something about the front of the new XTS doesn't work for me. It looks like an RC car where the body should lift right off the car after removing a couple of pins.
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SuperClassy:I just love the look of this new CTS. And I'm sure I would get around just fine with the 2.0 Turbo. Obviously if I wasn't restricted for price I would get the V-Sport with AWD and some all-season rubber. I put it right up there with Jag in terms of good looks. But I think I like the Caddy better.

Stew:It is a great design and easily one of the best looking sedans on the road. It is also nice that at least around here, all the GM dealerships have all 3 makes on 1 lot with 4 sedans in the same price range with sporting intentions and totally different personalities.

NeedBailMoney:something about the front of the new XTS doesn't work for me. It looks like an RC car where the body should lift right off the car after removing a couple of pins.

Did you mean CTS?
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SuperClassy:I just love the look of this new CTS. And I'm sure I would get around just fine with the 2.0 Turbo. Obviously if I wasn't restricted for price I would get the V-Sport with AWD and some all-season rubber. I put it right up there with Jag in terms of good looks. But I think I like the Caddy better.

Stew:It is a great design and easily one of the best looking sedans on the road. It is also nice that at least around here, all the GM dealerships have all 3 makes on 1 lot with 4 sedans in the same price range with sporting intentions and totally different personalities.

NeedBailMoney:something about the front of the new XTS doesn't work for me. It looks like an RC car where the body should lift right off the car after removing a couple of pins.

SuperClassy:Did you mean CTS?

Damn fat fingers..... Yeah, CTS
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I'll take an SS all day everyday. It is one my favorite cars that I've driven in the last 6 months. It's an honest sports sedan that does everything well.

It would be way easier to get rid of all the chrome on the outside of an SS than it would be to get CUE out of either an ATS or CTS.
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